Best Ground Beef Recipes

A meat-pie shortcut for the home cook: Use store-bought empanada dough instead of making your own. The cooks at Besh Steak use duck fat to sauté the meat filling. At home, butter is a perfectly fine substitute and much easier to find.

From pasta to curry, F&W has terrific ideas for easy ground beef recipes. Laab, a fast and easy dish, is a traditional Thai meat salad that can be eaten warm or at room temperature. Adding thin noodles is a simple way to turn it into a pasta salad, but the meat mixture is also great on its own. Plus, more amazing recipes for ground beef including the best meat loaf, Sicilian-style meatballs made with pine nuts and star chef Mario Batali’s prosciutto-and-spinach-stuffed meat loaf.